On Thursday, the Trump administration offered up a historically draconian budget proposal that is also—surprise, surprise—“far shorter and vaguer than White House budget plans normally are,” according to the Washington Post. It is a vicious, stone-cold rejection of the notion that the federal government ought to help…

Less than six hours before President Donald Trump’s new-and-improved-but-still-shitty travel and refugee bans were set to go into effect, a federal judge in Hawaii has issued a temporary nationwide restraining order.

A new Politico report, based on interviews with almost a dozen White House aides and agency staffers, describes an “environment of fear” in which staffers are suspicious of each other, of the press, of anti-Trump department staffers, and overwhelmingly, of the CIA and the “deep state.” Shockingly, an administration…

Sean Spicer, a man who stands behind a podium every day and blusters his way through questions from the press, has spent the better part of this week doing damage control over President Trump’s claims that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the presidential campaign. On Tuesday, he said that he is…

In January, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Kellyanne Conway told CNN in no uncertain terms that her boss would be flouting presidential convention by not releasing his tax returns. On Tuesday night, Rachel Maddow revealed one document — his 1040 from 2005— courtesy of investigative reporter David Cay Johnston…

Savannah Cunningham, 19, was one of the hundreds of women whose body was put on display without consent in a secret Facebook group and then consumed for perverse, degrading entertainment by members of the United States Marine Corps and other branches of the military. Now, according to The New York Times, she is…

In a recent interview on the Christian news site WORLD’s Listening In podcast, former North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory alleged that his reputation as an anti-trans bigot has made some companies reluctant to hire him for the consulting services he is currently offering. Last year, McCrory found himself at the center…

Back in January, Republicans in the House and Senate introduced identicalbills that would dramatically reduce restrictions on gun silencers, dubbed, incredibly, the “Hearing Protection Act.” Since a bunch of other terrifying shit was also going on around that time, this brazen gun lobby handout has flown a bit under…

Today, Donald Trump held a listening session on healthcare. As everyone has only just recently learned, healthcare is actually very complicated. Who knew? (No one.) And because President Trump was discussing such a complicated topic, he repeatedly placed his hand on and around his face in consternation. Here are some…

Shree Chauhan, a 33-year-old woman who lives in Washington DC, has more guts than half the political reporters covering the Trump Administration. On Saturday, Chauhan spotted White House press secretary and human marshmallow Sean Spicer at the Apple Store and seized the opportunity to ask him, “How does it feel to…

The office of U.S. Attorney General Preet Bharara, who was fired by Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente on Friday after refusing to resign, is currently involved in a number of active investigations and cases—an investigation into New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign fundraising, a bribery and…

To make her point about how far Republicans will go to block abortion access under the guise of protecting women, Houston Rep. Jessica Farrar has filed the satirical A Man’s Right to Know Act, which would fine men for masturbating and impose mandatory waiting periods and counseling before they could receive a…

Republican Congressman Steve King is basically one step away from parading through Iowa with a big white hood and burning a cross on his lawn. On Sunday, the Republican tweeted support for Islamophobic Dutch politician Geert Wilders, writing, “we can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”

In an interview published on the Bergen County Record on Sunday evening, Kellyanne Conway alleged that the government has a number of The Americans-inspired ways to surveil a citizen. One day later, she said she’s “not in the evidence game.”